[6] They imprisoned and
fined juries who hesitated to lend their aid when it was deemed
convenient to seek it. To these, Lord Bacon tells us, were added "other
courses fitter to be buried than repeated."[7] Emboldened by long
success, they at last disdained to observe "_the half face of
justice_,"[8] but summoning the wealthy and timid before them in private
houses, "shuffled up" a summary examination without a jury, and levied
such exactions as were measured only by the fears and fortunes of their
victims.--_Mackintosh's England_, Vol. 2.
[4] Bacon, iii. 409.
[5] Ibid. iii. 380.
[6] See examples in Bacon, iii.
[7] Bacon, iii. 382.
[8] E: Ibid. 381.
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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.
THE COURSE OF THE NIGER.
The discovery of the termination of the course of the Niger, will be of
the greatest importance to geography, to our political power, and to
civilization.
With regard to geography, perhaps the contradiction which was afforded
by the various sources whence we derived our knowledge of the character
of the interior of Africa, and of the course of, next to the Nile, the
most renowned, and, as was considered from the same accounts, the
greatest river of that country, have in late times given unlimited zest
in the pursuit of further information, and has not in the least
detracted from the pleasure with which we find that we are indebted to
our countrymen for the solution of this all-absorbing problem.
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